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missyann Why would you want terrorist in our country to receive the same due process that American citizens would receive Terrorist, or not entitled Would you like these people for neighbors ?
1. Why haven't white nationalist groups been designated as terrorist organizations? Fun fact, most homegrown domestic terrorism ARE by white nationalist groups, these are real statistics that can be seen and tracked. Their movement is tangible and real.
MS 13 is NOT a terrorist organization, terrorist group designations are meant for political violence.
Traditionally, the term terrorist group, applies to organizations who use violence to achieve political, religious, or ideological goals. Groups like Al-Qaeda, ISIS or certain white nationalist militias or general militias. They have certain political goals to subvert Government systems.
MS-13 while violent, operates more like a criminal enterprise: extortion, drug trafficking, human smuggling. Their motives are profit, power, and survival.. not ideology or politics. They are NOT an ideological driven group, they DON'T have end goals for politics except maybe within their gang.
Labeling them “terrorists” blurs that line especially when white nationalists DO have politically oriented goals and use domestic terrorism to achieve them all the time.
2. It opens a dangerous precedent
If we start designating non-ideological gangs as terrorist organizations, where does it stop? Again, wouldn't it therefore be okay to designate certain white supremacist militias the same? This would have to be fine with you.
3. Labeling ALL deportations as MS13 is dog whistle politics.
Trump did this mainly as an excuse, anyone fleeing from gangs for their own survival can now be labeled as a gang member. MS13 is being used a boogeyman for human rights violations.
4. Due process is to ensure that people's individual cases are heard as situations vary, if we didn't have due process, you could get publicly executed for just any old thing. Why would you want that? That's crazy to me. The only way to ensure checks and balances is due process.
For the fact I even have to explain why the constitution says PERSONS should have due process and not citizens and why you don't seem to understand that is wild.